Calculates dependencies sanely. Detects changes to included .tex and .bib
files and rebuilds when appropriate.

Detects your revision control system (svn, git, hg) and defines a \Revision
command you can use in your LaTeX markup to include a current revision
identifier. Useful for circulating drafts for comment.

make view opens your typeset document.

Distills a camera-ready PDF (with fonts embedded): make distill

To generate a draft with the revision number in its filename (to pass
around), use make snapshot.